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A lot is to be said of today's media-run world. It's entertaining. It can be educational. It can open up new worlds to explore. The internet, music, movies, tv. It's all over the place! With such a huge economy based on media, you'd think minority groups would get more representation! Right? Wrong.

What are your thoughts on our lack of representation in media? Do you know any good movies, shows, etc that do represent us? Any trans* actors, artists that deserve more attention?

Since people are only recently getting well-adjusted to seeing straight-up homosexuality on television, I think it'll be a bit longer until trans representation becomes more widespread in media.

It's not really trans, but I think that the cartoon Steven Universe has done a really great job representing gender in a character where a boy and a girl fuse into the same being; not only do they not refer to this character as female, since that's how Stevonnie appears, but they disregard pronouns at all. I can't really describe it well, but I think it's an especially good example not only in media, but media targeted towards children, that delineates sex and gender.

I recently watched a Finnish movie called "Kerron sinulle kaiken" ("I will tell you everything") where the protagonist was a transwoman meeting a married man with family, struggling with his wife and so on. The protagonist, Maarit, also has a teenager daughter and is divorced from her ex-wife, who made it very difficult for Maarit to see her daughter.

- I loved that no one in the movie asked about protagonist's genitals and they also showed a man using outdated/misleading words and that guy was corrected by Maarit. I'm not sure but I think it was attempt to show that trans people are part of Finnish society, since most of the footage about transpeople on TV here, whether documentary or fiction, is from US or UK, etc. so it appears kind of distant on, hmm, social level I guess.

On the other hand I'm not that interested about movies with their focus on relationships and stuff, I'm too fantasy/horror/action oriented, so the movie itself was kind of "meh" for me. sweatdrop

Well recently the trans* community has had some spotlight in media, but I still believe we're not represented enough in films. I really get pissed off when shows have cis actors play transgender characters... However there is a film recently released that has a transgender woman... playing a transgender woman! Can you believe that? ...Haha, it's actually really good. It's called Boy Meets Girl. Another series which is really informative about the lives of transgender peeps is True Trans. I watched the whole thing and I got a little emotional... redface

Being different in any way is still something that society isn't always very accepting of. Being trans is generally considered as a controversial subject too, along with things like homosexuality etc. They've (in my experience) had a mainly negative image from the media - especially in regards to religions like Christianity. The media is very, very slowly cutting some slack to people who're slightly different, like the show glee. Yes, I do realise a lot of people hate this show (I know I disliked it a few years ago,) but it portrays so many 'minority' groups in a positive light. Everything from the famous homosexuals, maybe slightly incest twins, to both a trans-man and trans-woman (I think). I still think it's a bit of a weird show, and slightly cheesy at times, but I love the fact that they're about acceptance and fighting, even though they're different and people don't always like them for it.

Just thought I'd mention glee, as I hadn't seen anyone else do it...

Best example I can think of is in the game Catherine. One of the major characters is a trans woman.

Yup. That's right.